I've been watching some Akan and Ghana documentaries. So much culture and science in melanated cultures. In one documentary though, the question was asked how does the history and Ghananian people feel about many of the groups there who was at war and had other Africans as...
indentured slaves, that sold them to other Africans and Europeans, what was the mentality then. One African scholar said in today's context it is immoral and unethical, but in those times it was just the business of the day...
It's a heck of a thing when you have a a country/region/group that have a "year of return" and that same place have descendants that may hold sold your ancestors around the world. Not just the Ghana region or gold coast but other African tribes/regions/countries did the same.
That's the thing about history, you will have to deal with the good and bad, pros & cons, mighty things & devilshment of your ancestors/cousins. Also your 2020 brain have to be rearranged when trying to understand what was occuring in ancient time on various parts of the world.
Don't just study "slavery", you'll be dealing with the baby info or the usual "black"/"African" info. Study "slave history", then you'll come across the trans-Atlantic AND trans-Pacific slave trade, when melanated, aboriginal, indigenous, natives had other natives as slaves,...
when Europeans had other Europeans as slaves and other ethnicities, Africans had Africans and Europeans as slaves, Asians had other Asians as slaves and other ethnicities, etc. Slavery is nasty, immoral, ungodly but there is many sides to it; also many things hidden or unknown.
If you also think that slavery in various forms don't exist today, then that may be why many people are slaves today unknowingly. History, especially GLOBAL history is a good teacher.
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